Sugata Marjit

Director (2007- )

and

Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics

Ph.D. (University of Rochester, USA)

Research Interests:   

International Economics, Economic Development, Economics of Corruption and Governance, Banking and Finance, Rational Choice Models of Political Economy, West Bengal Economy and Indian Economy

Courses Taught:
 

Development Economics
 

Editor: 

• India Macroeconomics Annual (SAGE, India / UK)

Awards / Honors:

• Recipient of the Panchanan Chakravarty Memorial Award (1999), awarded by the Bengal Economic Association for promoting teaching and research in West Bengal, India

• Mahalanobis Memorial Medel, Indian Econometric Society,2002

• V.K.R.V.Rao National Award for Young Social Scientist (Economics,2003) by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (Ministry of HRD.,Govt. of India)

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:

•  India's exports: An analytical study (Oxford University Press, 1997. Hard Cover. Paper Back, 2000,with A. Raychaudhury),

• International Trade,Wage Inequality and The Developing Economy – A General Equilibrium Approach (2003,Springer-Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, New York with R. Acharyya)

• Joint Ventures, International Investment and Technology Transfer (2003,Oxford University Press, Reader in Economics, edited jointly with Nirbikar Singh) 

• International Trade and Economic Development-Essays in Theory and Policy, (2008,Oxford University Press)

• Financial Intermediation in a Less Developed Economy, The History of the United Bank of India (Sage Publication, 2008, with Indrajit Mallick)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Profit Reducing International Outsourcing (2008, with A. Mukherjee) Journal of International Trade and Economic Development , Vol.17 (1).pp.  21-35

• Trade Liberalization, production Organization and Informal Sector in Developing Countries (2008, with. D.S.Maiti)-Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (Forthcoming)

• International and Intra-national Trade -A Continuum Approach (2008, with H. Beladi) Japanese Economic Review (Forthcoming)

• Quota as a Competitive Device ( 2008, with A. Mukherjee and T. Kabiraj) in Lex Zhao and Takashi Kamihigashi  (eds)  Globalization, International Trade and Economic Dynamics , in memory of Koji Shimomura- Springer-Verlag ( Forthcoming)

• Labor Productivity Growth , Informal wage and Capital Mobility A General Equilibrium Analysis (2008, with S. Kar) in Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds) Labor Markets and Development-Routledge Pub (Forthcoming)

• Skilled-Unskilled wage Inequality and Urban Unemployment (2008,with A. Chakravarty and H. Beladi) Economic Inquiry ( Forthcoming)

• Tariff Jumping and Joint ventures ( 2008, with A. Chakravarty and H. Beladi) Southern Economic Journal ( Forthcoming)

• Trade Reform and Informal Wage ( 2007,with S.Kar and H. Beladi) Review of Development Economics , Vol.11(2), pp. 313-320

• Informality, Corruption and Trade Reform (2007, with S. Ghosh and A.K. Biswas) European Journal of Political Economy, Vol.23, pp. 777-789

• Trade and wages  (2007, with R. Acharyya ) Princeton Encyclopedia of World Economy  (Forthcoming) – Princeton University Press

• Poverty, Taxation and Governance ( 2006, with V. Mukherjee and M. Kolmar) Journal of International Trade and Economic Development , Vol.15 (3),pp. 325-333

• International Outsourcing and R and D- Long Run Implications for Consumers(2007, with A. Mukherjee) Review of International Economics (Forthcoming)

• Emigration and Wage Inequality (2005, with S. Kar),Economics Letters , Vol.87, (3).pp.141-145

• Complementarity and International Trade –On Some Recent Developments in  Structural general Equilibrium Models (2005, in S. Lahiri and P.Maiti ed.) Economic Theory in a Changing World,  Oxford University Press.

• Asymmetric Capacity Costs and Joint Venture Buy-Outs (2004, with P. RayChaudhuri), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.54 (3) ,pp. 425-438

• Trade and wage Inequality in Developing Countries (2004, with H. Beladi and A. Chakrabarti ) Economic Inquiry,Vol.42(2) , pp. 295-303     

• Private Contribution for Public Projects: NGOs versus Governments (2003, with V. Mukherjee and G. Gupta) Journal of  Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol.159(3),pp. 553-570 

• Protecting Consumers Through Protection : The Role of Tariff - Induced  Technology Transfer (2003, with T. Kabiraj)  European Economic Review. Vol.47(1), pp 113-124.

• Possibility or Impossibility of paradoxes in small economy Harris-Todaro models - A Unifying analysis (2003,with H.Beladi) Journal of  Development  Economics. Vol. 72(1), pp 379-385.      

• Economic reform and Informal wage – A General Equilibrium Analysis (2003) Journal of Development Economics. Vol.72(1), pp 371-378      

• The Stolper - Samuelson Theorem in a Wage - Differential Framework (2002, with H. Beladi) Japanese Economic Review. Vol. 53(2), pp 177-181

• The role of International fragmentation in the Development Process (May 2001, with R.W. Jones) - American Economic Review, Vol.91 (2). pp. 363-366

• Technology Transfer Under Asymmetric Information, The Role of Equity Participation (2001 with A. Mukherjee), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. Vol. 157(2), pp. 282-300.

• Cooperation in R and D : The Case of Patent Infringement Agreements (2001 with A.        Mukherjee and H. Shi) - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation. Vol. 45(4), pp. 383-401.

• South - South Cooperation and Exports (2001, with H. Beladi) - Theory and Decision. Vol. 50(3), pp 283-293

• Incomplete Information as a Deterrent to Crime (2000,with  M. Rajeev and D.Mukherjee) European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 16 (4). pp 763-773.

• Harassment, Corruption and Tax Policy (2000, with A. Mukherjee and V. Mukherjee), European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 16(1), pp 75-94

• Three Faces of Factor Intensities (1999 with R.W. Jones and H.. Beladi ) Journal of International Economics. Vol. 48 (2). pp. 413-20.

• Resolving the Credibility Problem of an Honest Government -A Case for Foreign Investment Subsidy(1999,jointly with U. Broll, B. Moitra and Y.K. Ng ), Review of International Economics, Vol.7(4), pp. 625-631

• Complementarity between Import Competition and Import Promotion (1999,with H. Beladi), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.86 (2).pp 280-285

• On controlling crime with corrupt officials (1998, with H.Shi), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol.34 (1), pp. 163-172.

• Technology Collaboration and Foreign Quality Participation-A Theoretical Analysis (1998, with A. Mukherjee), Review of International Economics, Vol.6(1),pp 142-150.

• Protection and gainful effects of foreign capital (1996, with H. Beladi), Economics Letters,Vol.53 (3),pp. 311-316

• Targeting Sectors for Foreign Capital Inflow in a Small Developing Economy (1996 with U. Broll and S. Mitra), Review of International Economics. Vol. 5 (1). pp.101-06

• An Analysis of Rural-Urban Migration and Protection (1996 with H.Beladi),Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.29 (4).pp.930-40

• A Theory of Overseas Joint Ventures(1995 with U.Broll and I.Mallick), Economics Letters. Vol.47 (3-4).pp.367-70

• Labour Market Aspects of Enclave Led Growth (1995 with R.W.Jones),Canadian Journal of Economics. Vol.28 pp.76-93

• Income Distribution and the Contractionary Effect of Protection-A Theoretical Analysis (1993 with T.Kabiraj), Economics Letters.Vol.41(4). pp.399-405

• International Technology Transfer Under Potential Threat of Entry-a Cournot Nash Framework (1993 with T.Kabiraj), Journal of Development Economics.Vol.42 (1).pp. 75-88

• Foreign Capital and Protectionism ( 1992 with Hamid Beladi),Canadian Journal of Economics.Vol. 25 (1).pp.233-38

• Agro-based Industry-and Rural-Urban Migration-A Case for an Urban Employment Subsidy (1991), Journal of Development Economics.Vol.35 (2).pp. 393-98

• Incentives for Cooperative and Non-Cooperative R and D Duopoly (1991), Economic Letters. Vol. 37 (2). pp. 187-91

• On a Non-Cooperative Theory of Technology Transfer (1990), Economics  Letters. Vol. 33 (3). pp 293-98.

• A Simple Production Model in Trade and its Applications (1990), Economics  Letters. Vol. 37 (2). pp 215.

• Rationalizing Public - Private Joint Ventures in an Open Economy - A Strategic Approach" (1990), Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 33 (2), pp. 377-83.

• A Simple Model of Technology Transfer(1998), Economics Letters,Vol.2 (1) pp. 63-67

• Trade in Intermediates and the Colonial Pattern of Trade (1987), Economica.Vol. 54(214). pp 173-84.

• Simple Production Model with Stolper - Samuelson Properties (1985, with R.W. Jones), International Economic Review. Vol. 26 (3). pp 565-67.

   

CURRENT RESEARCH:

• Informal Labor and The Developing Economy- Analytical Issues ( Book in progress with S. Kar)

• Openness Index for Regions,( with D. Maiti, S. Kar)

• Traders in Trade Theory (with A. Sengupta)

• Corruption and Trade (with B. Mondal)

• Strategic Patent Termination ( with T. Kabiraj, A. Dutta,)

• Competitive Trade Models with Real World Features (with Ronald Jones)

• Fraudulent Financial Practice and Role of Competition (with  F. Gul and X. Xu,2008)

• Outsourcing and Composition of R and D (with .L. Yang)

• IPR and Outsourcing of Rand D- A North-South Perspective ( with L. Yang)